This Colombian Is Unlocking Space Mysteries Of The Young Universe And Dark Energy
Jul 28, 2021,10:00am EDT|82 views
Andrew Wight Contributor
Colombian astrophysicist Luz Angela Garcia's journey in astronomy started out with encyclopedias and a telescope as a child, now she is a researcher looking into a range of mysteries including what the young universe was like and why the expansion of the universe is speeding up.
Garcia, currently a researcher at Universidad ECCI in Bogota, Colombia, says one of her main projects is the study of the Epoch of Reionization.
"This is the era when the free hydrogen of the intergalactic medium became ionized due to the intensive radiation released by the first stars and galaxies that formed in the Universe," she says.
Garcia says this is a complex process, and physicists don't have many direct observations of this slice of time.
"So I use numerical simulations that mimic the processes that occurred when the Universe was very young," Garcia says, "This project started with my PhD work and now I'm using very high-resolution numerical simulations to explore the conclusion of Reionization."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwight/2021/07/28/this-colombian-is-unlocking-space-mysteries-of-the-young-universe-and-dark-energy/?sh=45c00331335d